Where does “pej-” come from?

pej- (Proto-Finnic) comes from Proto-Uralic *pälkä — thumb.

Ancestry of “pej-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Uralic*pälkäthumb

Words derived from “pej-

Every word from Proto-Uralic *pälkä
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